Pending Cases and Length of Time Cases Pending,
as of November 30, 2009

Pending Cases

Days Waited

State Immigration Court
Located In

Percent

Number

Rank

Average

Rank

Entire US

100%

228,421

439

California

26%

59,451

1

619

1

New York

16%

36,922

2

420

11

Florida

8%

19,021

3

431

9

Texas

8%

18,030

4

218

25

Illinois

4%

8,696

5

375

12

Massachusetts

4%

8,323

6

612

2

Virginia

3%

7,428

7

478

5

Arizona

3%

7,088

8

304

18

New Jersey

3%

6,880

9

295

19

Georgia

3%

6,408

10

359

14

Colorado

2%

5,622

11

450

7

Maryland

2%

5,025

12

430

10

Pennsylvania

2%

4,644

13

450

8

Washington

2%

3,796

14

278

21

North Carolina

2%

3,788

15

223

24

Tennessee

2%

3,684

16

214

26

Nebraska

1%

3,418

17

498

4

Ohio

1%

3,339

18

264

22

Missouri

1%

2,767

19

327

15

Michigan

1%

2,367

20

503

3

Minnesota

1%

2,234

21

369

13

Louisiana

1%

1,980

22

195

29

Oregon

1%

1,870

23

290

20

Connecticut

1%

1,388

24

231

23

Puerto Rico

1%

1,283

25

319

16

Nevada

1%

1,221

26

197

28

Utah

0.5%

1,100

27

455

6

Hawaii

0.2%

549

28

316

17

Guam

0.0%

99

29

212

27

Pending case counts are classified by the state the Immigration Court is based in. EOIR refers to this as the “base city.” Judges in most Immigration Courts hear cases in a number of different hearing locations. Sometimes these are in different states. For example, the Immigration Court based in Portland, Oregon has hearing locations not only in Oregon, but in Idaho, Montana and Alaska. A hearing location also may be assigned to a base city in an adjacent state because it is closer to that city than to another immigration court in the same state. TRAC’s new tool allows drilling in to a state to examine pending cases and wait times at each hearing location assigned to a particular Immigration Court. For states with only hearing locations, see summary. For a complete list of hearing locations in a different state than its base city court see listing.